Tripterygion

Not to be confused with the plant genus Tripterygium.

Tripterygion is a genus of fish in the family Tripterygiidae, the threefin blennies, the species of which are found in the north eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea.^[3]

Tripterygion Temporal range: Late Miocene to Present[1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Tripterygion tripteronotum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Blenniiformes
Family:	Tripterygiidae
Subfamily:	Tripterygiinae
Genus:	Tripterygion Risso, 1827[2]
Type species
Tripterygion nasus Risso, 1810[2]
Species
See text

Species

• Tripterygion delaisi Cadenat & Blache, 1970 – black-faced blenny
• Tripterygion melanurus Guichenot, 1850
• Tripterygion tartessicum Carreras-Carbonell, Pascual & Macpherson, 2007
• Tripterygion tripteronotum (Risso, 1810) – red-black triplefin

Gallery

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  Tripterygion tartessicum
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  Tripterygion melanurus